ABSTRACT
The author began his police career as a Special Agent with the US Department of Justice. The training here was exciting, the credentials impressive, and the job was at best lackluster, more paperwork and filing than police work. In 1992, nearly three years to the day from when he joined the New York Police Department (NYPD), he joined the Nassau County Police Department. One of the reasons becoming Valedictorian became a goal for him was because the only person who was guaranteed to be assigned to their precinct of choice was the number one graduate, or someone who had a 'hook' high enough to get them assigned to the precinct they wanted. The author was on patrol in a wealthy suburb of New York City (NYC). Edward Lorenz, a US mathematician and meteorologist, is well known for the notion of the 'Butterfly Effect', the idea that a small disturbance, like the flapping of a butterfly's wings, can induce enormous consequences.
